High temperature reactor

Claim 1

A LINED REACTOR FOR TREATING A FLUID STREAM IN THE PRESENCE OF A RETAINED SOLID PARTICULATE MATRIAL AND HAVING A QUENCH SECTION, WHICH COMPRISES, IN COMBINATION, AN OUTER PRESSURE-TIGHT VERTICALLY ELONGATED HOUSING HAVING AN UPPER FLUID INLET AND A LOWER FLUID OUTLET IN THE LOWER END OF SAID HOUSING, AN INTERIOR METAL WALL LINER ATTACHED TO AND SPACED FROM THE INTERIOR WALL OF SAID HOUSING AND HAVING FLUID PASSAGEWAY SECTIONS TO SAID FLUID INLET AND TO SAID FLUID OUTLET, INSULATING MATERIAL FILLING THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID INTERIOR WALL AND SAID LINER, A PERFORATE FRUSTO-CONICALLY SHAPED MEMBER MOUNTED WITHIN THE HOUSING DIRECTLY OVER THEPASSAGEWAY TO SAID FLUID OUTLET, A SECOND AND LARGER PERFORATE FRUSTO-CONI CALLY SHAPED MEMBER SPACED FROM AND POSITIONED OVER AND ENCOMPASSING SAID FIRST MENTIONED PERFORATE MEMBER AND SAID OUTLET, A BED OF SOLID PARTICLES SUPPORTED ON SAID SECOND PERFORATE MEMBER, AT LEAST ONE FLUID DISTRIBUTING SPRAY MEMBER POSITIONED BETWEEN SAID PERFORATE MEMBRS TO DIRECT THE ENTIRE QUENCHING FLUID INTO THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID PERFORATE MEMBERS AND UPWARDLY AGAINST SAID SECOND PERFORATE MEMBER OVER SUBSTANTIALLY THE ENTIRE INNER PERIPHERY THEREOF SUCH THAT A RESULTING MIXED FLUID PHASE DESCENDS UNIFORMLY DOWN AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF THE ENCOMPASSED MEMBER, A QUENCH FLUID CONDUIT MEANS THROUGH SAID HOUSING AND CONNECTED TO SAID FLUID DISTRIBUTING MEMBER WHEREBY A QUENCHING FLUID MAY BE INTERMIXED WITH THE FLUID PASSING THROUGH SAID PERFORATE MEMBERS TO SAID FLUID OUTLET.